A special panel of experts named by the court has decided that the music used was a plagiarised version of the song. Springsteen's lawyers are now looking to recoup the profits the agency made from the campaign, as well as punitive damages to "discourage this sort of practice". A ruling is expected in November.

The Flemish film and TV industries last week published an open letter to culture minister Joke Schauvliege to protest at the region's plans to cut spending. "The film sector creates as many jobs in Flanders as the auto industry," said director Hans Herbots. "Cutting into the budget for the sector runs the risk of undoing the growth that has taken place and going back to the situation of 10 years ago." Schauvliege said she understood the sector's concerns but warned they would have to make cost cuts the same as any other sector of the economy. Her colleague, media minister Ingrid Lieten, is due to present a plan to provide government support for TV fiction, documentaries and animation later in the year.

Belgacom TV's cult hit Who took my badjas, the work of advertising agency VVL/BBDO, has been voted best Belgian ad of 2010 by the promotion and communication association Vepec. The ad involved a man in a woman's bathrobe inserted into movie footage featuring Nicole Kidman, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and other stars.

Closing Time (above), the exhibition by painter Jan Vanriet that marked the closure of the Fine Arts Museum of Antwerp for four years for renovations, attracted a total of 85,000 visitors. The last visitor at the weekend was presented with a signed and numbered lithograph by Vanriet, and "De laatste dag" ("The Last Day"), a work by Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky, was projected onto the museum façade. Works from the museum's collection will be loaned to museums in Belgium and abroad during the closure and can already be seen in the new James Ensor exhibition at the ING cultural centre in Brussels.

Scala, the female choir from Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, has signed a recording contract in the US with Atco Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which represents artists such as Art Garfunkel, Scarlett Johansson and New York Dolls. Scala's version of the Radiohead hit "Creep" features in the soundtrack of The Social Network, the new movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A CD release is planned shortly, and Scala will tour the US in April.

Flemish author Peter Terrin has been awarded a European Prize for Literature for his fourth novel De Bewaker, which will appear in English as The Guard in July of next year. The €5,000 prizes were awarded by national juries in 11 member states.

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